Local Production, Local Consumption Storage Economics for Peer-to-Peer Systems

Autonomy of peer-to-peer (P2P) systems requires some form of economies. Forwardable storage claims of Samsara[1] can define a common value in computer networks, and possibly be a “commodity money”1 in P2P systems. However, without managing how far the claims can be forwarded, they would not form an efficient, dependable and sustainable economic chain. We propose to use i-WAT[5] tickets to represent storage claims to form “drafts in real terms”2 so that a claim can be dynamically replaced by its equivalent in the vicinity, allowing the accesses to the storage to be fast and robust.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: SAINT
• Authors: Kenji Saito, Eiichi Morino
• Keywords: Forwardable Storage Claims, Internet Technology, SAINT 2008, Storage Claims, Sustainable Economic Chain